Korean Natural Farming with Sherri Miller – Epi-3161
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Sherri Miller is a Master Cho certified instructor of Korean Natural Farming, KNF, helping people save time, labor, money, grow more and better food, improve their health and environment.
Sherri is a Biologist and Researcher, including microbial field work. She’s worked on EISs, written papers for University of Hawaii including a KNF series, and presented a TEDx talk.
Sherri grew Specialty Tea in Hawaii on her homestead, Moonrise Tea Garden. Her Hand Rolled Tea was so popular she once had two grown men fight over 3g of tea at the World Tea Expo. She grew Specialty Tea, herbs, spices, eggs, and bred milk sheep, with steer and horses on a nearby property.
Moonrise started as an organic operation, switching to KNF after meeting Master Han-Kyu Cho, creator KNF and developer of IMO Indigenous Microorganism technology.
After switching to KNF Moonrise Tea Garden:
• Farm inputs bill went from $200/mo for tea, to $20/mo for the entire farm.
• Tea sold for $1/g and KNF eggs sold for $7 per dozen when organic eggs sold for $4.
• Stopped buying all animal feed and fertilizers.
• Stopped making compost yet turned dead clay into productive soil.
• Stopped mucking out the barn but did not have smell or flies.
• Problems with pests, disease, and parasites almost completely eliminated.
• Animal care (almost 100 animals) dropped to only 14 hr/mo – freedom to travel
• Inoculated Deep Litter System IDLS provided quality, balanced “compost” for garden use at all times.
• IDLS was used to brood chicks with no source of heat. (It can keep barns warm in winter and cool in summer.)
Today we discuss KNF and how you can learn more about it and use it on your farm, permaculture property or homestead.
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Gonna have to listen to this ASAP!
One good youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisTrumpSoilSteward
I loved the interview with Sherri Miller on natural farming! If others are not familiar with the work of John Kempf who she mentioned, I highly recommend checking out his stuff! I have been enjoying his podcast and videos for several years now and think he may be one of the most brilliant folks in the history of understanding plant heath. I didn’t see any links to his work in the show notes so I thought I would share some here. I know she said some of his work has a paywall. As far as I know that is pretty much just the things like the ability to consult with him live or in person. I’ve been watching and listening to all this stuff for a long time, no paywall at all.
His video channel with lots of seminars, Q&A’s, etc – https://www.youtube.com/c/AdvancingEcoAgriculture
You might want to start with this video as when I watched it a few years ago it opened my mind to a whole new world of possibilities around our property- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnNOvA3diDU (You’ll notice you will almost never see Mr. Kempf’s face in a picture or video as he is Amish.)
His podcast where he interviews many interesting and brilliant folks – https://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com
I haven’t yet found an episode boring even though many are geared towards people farming at a far larger scale than what we are doing on 3 acres, most of the ideas are highly applicable to things I do too. If you need an episode to start with, check out this one that particularly interested me as I grew up in PA, have many friends and family in the dairy industry, and most are quitting or going broke right now. While this guy is getting totally different results. https://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/episode-68-alvin-peachey
So excited to hear this! I love One Straw Revolution. Beautiful podcast!
I think I need to try KNF!
I second that John Kempf has some great content.
I particularly liked his appearances on Matt Powers’ podcast. (site won’t let me link it)
The implications of those were pretty mind-blowing.